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...gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...
This proposal may well shock rugged, shell-backed shipping men who cherish the tradition of freedom of the seas. But to owners abroad who have lost most of their prewar vessels, Land's proposal made sense...
Thus the glee with which the furious little fringe of isolationists seized on the Senatorial remarks as anti-Allied was as misplaced as was the Administration's feeble efforts to keep the lid on their criticisms, or as beside the point as the shock felt in London...
...sharply as the best of the sets. Adolphe Menjou and Reginald Gardner are atmospheric. The fact that Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...shock to meet his first hross-a cat-whiskered cross between a snake, a seal and a stoat. It was just as much of a shock for the hross to meet a hmãn. Fortunately, they were both hnau (thinking animals) and after jointly slaying a hnakra, a jabberwockative monster, the hross made Ransom his blood hnakrapunt...